[Coco] The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023

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The Coco Nation News stories for Episode 303, March 4, 2023 ===============================================================
Collected by L. Curtis Boyle

Coco 1/2/3 (and multi-platform)
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1) TRS-80 Retro Programming posted the second part of his Base 10 to Base 5, based on comments and source supplied by a viewer that was done for Commodore
BASIC:
  https://youtu.be/fT9da7lBSfA
He also posted an update to his much faster version of Tales of Suburbia, which also includes improved graphics:
  https://youtu.be/s3I0RFVaOFI
And a further updated on Tales of Suburbia:
  https://youtu.be/uUf9kQCMswQ

2) John Zizolfo Has released more templates this week that you can download and print out - this time for the blank page templates for Tandy's "Electronic Book" hardware:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160501627497641/

3) The Home Computer Museum (in the Netherlands, that we have mention before) got a **huge** "barn find" of old computers - which even included some Coco's:
(Play the intro, which explains what happened, and then faster forward to around 9:!5 to see some of the Coco stuff (TRS-80 and Apples are before it):
  https://youtu.be/f8TiqdUZLXo

4) Coco Crew episode 93 is out, and includes a discussion on "is retro still cool" (that's a silly question, given our respective audiences!) and Neil does a review Carl England's Backup Magic:
  http://cococrew.org

5) Hot on the heels of the announcement that Darren Atkinson has released the files to make the MCX-32SD expansion for the MC-10 - Frank at retrorewind.ca is expecting to offer them for sale starting this upcoming week! Price should be the same that it has been in the past.
  retrorewind.ca

6) Tony Vincent posted a link in the Dragon group on Facebook to a place to get a "Dial-A-ROM" - this allows a large ROM with multiple images to plug into an existing ROM socket. While we have seen this before with dip switches to select different ROM images within the large "master" ROM... this one actually has a turnable switch:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3405576046368707/

MC-10
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1) James Host posted a ZIP file onto the MC-10 Facebook group that contains all the remaining programs from the 20 programs book that Jim Gerrie had ported a couple of recently:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/731424100317748/posts/5843856145741159/

Dragon 32/64
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1) Perry Andrews put up a picture of his Dragon replacement PSU that he got from John Whitworth of Dragonplus Electronics that has been assembling:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3407994356126876/
He also took a photo of a display at the Science Museum in London - which includes both a TRS-80 Model 1 and a Dragon 32 amongst a dozen more computers:

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=6112564385472132&set=gm.3406309916295320&idorvanity=1602723113320685

2) Matt Kaye posted about some removable blister packs with a card back that his making, so that you can have a proper display for old cassette games with brand new (but basically period correct) packaging, with full color covers. The same he shows has Eddie Steady Go, Back Track & Cash Man:
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/dragon32/posts/3407113886214923/

3) French YouTube page "Chti'geek un jour! Chti'geek toujours!" (roughly translates to "Geek one day! Geek always!" I think) put up a brief video introducing the Dragon 32 he received:
  https://youtu.be/RDUC9pjteuk

4) This is actually old (from March of 2020), but it's author recently joined our Discord. It's a 3D graphics engine demo on a Dragon 32 where the program only takes 1K, written by a demo scene coder who normally works with Atari 8 bit and other retro machines. It was supposed to be released at the "Forever"
demo party in Slovakia, but that event was cancelled due to Covid:
Post about it from back in 2020:
  https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=85003
Brief video demo:
  https://youtu.be/sviuSkciHAw

Game On news (all Coco related platforms):
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1) Jim Gerrie has been working on Erico's Monteiro's low res zombie game (that we covered a few weeks ago) to the MC-10. For extra speed, he is using Greg Dionne's MCBASIC compiler on it as well:
  https://youtu.be/IWZaj3_7qG8
He also entered in "Fall" that originally appeared in a programming book for the French Alice computer (clone of the MC-10):
  https://youtu.be/uf_XMYuivIY
He also ported "La Raquette" from the Alice:
  https://youtu.be/ZLdsLQ8YWN0
He then expanded La Raquette, making it into more of a Popcorn style game and compiling it with Greg Dionne's MC-10 BASIC compiler (Jim mentions that it is actually closer to a Vic20 game called Diamond Drop at this point). It features skill levels 1-3 (which is how many pieces can fall at onces), and is now compatible with the joypad device he has been using recently:
  https://youtu.be/4eHpC9eu7uw

2) Paul Shoemaker posted a video of game side project that he is working on to the Facebook Coco group; a platform game using the 32x16 text screen, inspired by a CP/M game called "Ladder":
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/2359462640/posts/10160503449702641/

3) Episode 41 of The Coco Show From Aaron & Boat is out on YouTube - covering the Spectral Associates game Module Man:
  https://youtu.be/BrSGZ2zMFaw

4) PlayGames on YouTube seems to have finished their 30-40 second gameplay video clips for the Dragon 32/64 - 400 in all:
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp7z5j6N5lhwyHnw_wqeAt_GZgMXqTnvI

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